Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen feels that the Australian team needs to be concerned about the performances of Steven Smith and Brad Haddin rather than targeting all-rounder Shane Watson after the visitors slipped to a 169-run defeat in Cardiff on Saturday.

For a fine 130 in an otherwise poor batting performance by Sri Lanka, where the next highest individual score was 46 and then 25, in the first innings of the third Test against Pakistan, Dimuth Karunaratne is our Cricket World Player of the Week.

Redemption and reformation are often terms that are used in the context of damage control or to get things BACK in order when things have gone badly wrong. Here are three cricketing examples from 2015.